I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
IVAN TURGENEVYou may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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